Hypertension in the elderly /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, New Jersey :
Humana Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases.
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Table of Contents:
- The importance of hypertension in the geriatric population
- Age-related changes in the cardiovascular system
- Aging, arterial stiffness, and systolic hypertension
- Pharmacological and pharmacodynamic alterations in the elderly : application to cardiovascular therapies
- Epidemiology of hypertension in the older patient
- Nonpharmacological trials in the older hypertensive patient
- Clinical trials of hypertension in the older patient
- Blood pressure measurement in the older patients with hypertension
- Clinical evaluation of the elderly hypertensive
- Hypertension in the elderly: endocrine causes of secondary hypertension
- Diagnosis and management of hypertensive renal and renovascular disease in the elderly
- Heart failure in the older hypertensive patient
- Management of ischemic heart disease in the older hypertensive patient : evaluation and management
- Cerebrovascular disease in the elderly hypertensive
- Diuretics and beta-adrenergic blockers in the management of hypertension in the elderly-- Assessment of the role of ACE inhibitors in the elderly
- Use of angiotensin receptor blockers in the elderly
- Clinical trials with calcium antagonists in older patients with hypertension
- Alpha-adrenoceptor blockers for management of hypertension in the elderly
- Combination drug therapy in the elderly
- Attitudes regarding hypertension among older African-American adults
- Treatment of hypertension in the elderly diabetic patient
- Management of hypertension in older patients with arthritis
- The clinician's role in improving therapeutic adherence and blood pressure control in older hypertensive patients